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Here's What the $31,000 Furniture Set Ordered by Ben Carson Looks Like
Very tasteful. Although I'm not sure how I feel about my tax money being spent on such extravagance. Especially if it is going to some interior design firm's arbitrary markup.
curious how $14,000 could be spent making a $3100 table :/
Very Easily. That Breakfront Hutch alone can end up being a hundred hour job. So at 7 grand your looking at a rate of about $70 an hour for skilled labor and expensive AF lumber and materials. It is standard formula to mark up at least 50% - however, actual profit margin after expenses per job makes me lucky to have a net profit margin of 20 to 25 percent.
So what does "price as ordered" mean exactly?
this is likely a semantics thing, and i was sort of joking. the quote above states that $14,000 had been spent making the table, which was $3113 as ordered. one might assume that 14k is in reference to the whole suite of furniture, but that's not what it says.